Officially Homeowners!

With yesterday being the last day to receive the first time home buyers' tax credit, we managed to sign the papers and close on our first home just in time!

I never could have imagined that we would be buying our first home in the "hood" of Memphis, and that it would be 90 years old! God always has a way of surprising us...

Here are some pictures of the house (I didn't snap great shots).

Yes, that is an apartment out back, what we like to call "the in-law suite". It has a small bathroom and mini kitchen and separate keys which makes it ideal for helping someone that might be coming into the area and needing a place to stay short-term. Because of all the medical clinics, many come through on rotations, families come to visit, etc. so we are looking forward to using this a means of being hospitable to those in need.

And our chickens! Have we totally lost our minds? Probably so!

Of course Jack will join us in the new house, too. Seeing as we rescued him as a kitten from the streets of Binghamton, we like to tell him that he is returning home!

Oh, and we won't actually move in until the last weekend in August. (The current family is moving to serve as missionaries in North India at that time.) I promise many more pictures then!